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Barnsley Building Society Conveyancing Lender Panel Compliance Tool

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This system optimises the way you can prove to lender panels that you are, and can remain fully compliant with their requirements, with automatic updates on Barnsley Building Society’s changes. Notwithstanding that utilising COMPLETIONmonitor is not a prerequisite for Barnsley Building Society , demonstrating you can stay up to date with Barnsley Building Society’s Handbook requirements is an excellent support to your panel application and, just as importantly, protect your panel standing.

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Lenders frequently change their requirements. The UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook requirements from Barnsley Building Society are not guidelines, they are instructions from a client. As with many clients, instructions can change - and they do change, over time:

A Timeline of Policy Changes


Since 2008, Barnsley Building Society has made 317 revisions or additions to sections of their version of the UK Finance Handbook.
That equates to a section change every 8.6 days. In total, 87% of the sections of P2 of the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook for Barnsley Building Society have been changed since 15/12/2008.

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Examples of recent questions relating to the Barnsley Building Society Conveyancing Panel from members of the public

I have just been informed by my lender that my lawyer is not on the Barnsley Building Society Solicitor panel. What can I do to be sure that this is correct?
You need to contact your conveyancer. You lawyer should advise you what has happened. If they are not on the panel they may recommend you to a firm that is on the the approved Barnsley Building Society solicitor panel.
Our conveyancer has discovered a problem with the lease for the apartment we are purchasing. The other side have suggested title insurance as a solution. We are happy with insurance and will cover the costs. Our lawyer says that as he is on the Barnsley Building Society conveyancing panel he must check that the lender is happy with this solution. Who is the client here, us or Barnsley Building Society?
The short answer to your last question is that, notwithstanding the potential for a conflict of interest, you and Barnsley Building Society are the client. A precondition to being on the Barnsley Building Society approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Barnsley Building Society). The CML Handbook conditions require your lawyer to disclose issues such as defects will the lease so that Barnsley Building Society can be afforded the opportunity to check with their valuer as to the extent that the value of the property is affected . Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for you.
How up to date is your database of lawyers on the Barnsley Building Society conveyancing panel? Do Barnsley Building Society send you an updated list?
The firms themselves provide us confirmation that they are on the Barnsley Building Society conveyancing panel as opposed to being supplied with a list from Barnsley Building Society directly.
My grandmother passed away 10 months ago and as sole heir and executor was left the house. The house had a small mortgage remaining of approximately £4500. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Barnsley Building Society , pay off the mortgage etc. Is this allowed?
If you intend to re-mortgage then Barnsley Building Society will insist on your using a conveyancer on the Barnsley Building Society conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Barnsley Building Society conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Barnsley Building Society mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
Is the case that all CQS (Conveyancing Quality Scheme) solicitors on the Barnsley Building Society conveyancing panel?
A selection of lenders now use CQS as the starting point for Panel approval such as HSBC and Santander. The Law Society’s CQS accreditation however gives no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. That being said,the Council of Mortgage Lenders have indicated that it is likely to become a pre-requisite for firms wishing to join their approved list of firms.
When it comes to mortgage companies such as Barnsley Building Society do solicitors have to be pay a fee to be on the list of approved solicitors?
We are not aware of any lender fees to be on their panel although some do charge an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.
After much negotiation I have agreed a price on a house. My financial adviser recommended their conveyancers I paid an upfront payment of 200. Soon after the conveyancers contacted me to say that they were not on the Barnsley Building Society conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Barnsley Building Society panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.

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